Billions of dollars in U.S. health spending are at stake for hospitals, insurers and doctors who are worried by estimates that 24 million fewer Americans would be insured by 2026 under the House bill.
The insurance industrys main lobby, Americas Health Insurance Plans, criticized the House bill, saying the Senate should boost subsidies to help people afford insurance.
Doubtful that the Anthem-Cigna merger will come to fruition, speculation about the next health-insurance megadeal -- and the Trump administrations tolerance for such transactions -- has begun.
'The opioid epidemic in this country has staggering human consequences,' Scott Gottlieb said in a hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price will play a crucial role in the success or failure of the ACA in 2017, while other Republicans have sent mixed signals about their intentions for Obamacare.
House Speaker Paul Ryan and his GOP lieutenants can afford to lose no more than 21 votes in the chamber, presuming all Democrats vote against the bill.
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